A short notice of an improved new truss and other surgical and mechanical aids / manufactured by Thomas Eagland.

  • Eagland, Thomas.
Date:
1851
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A short notice of an improved new truss and other surgical and mechanical aids / manufactured by Thomas Eagland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mr. EAGLAND Respectfully invites the attention of the Medical Profession to the following Notice of New Trusses and other Apparatus, manufactured by him at his Establishment, No. 35, BOND BTEBST, LEEDS. TEALE’S TRUSSES. These Trusses, of which Mr. Eagland is the sole manufacturer and pro¬ prietor, were suggested by T. P. Teale, Esq., F.L.S., Surgeon to the Leeds General Infirmary, and have been described by him in “ The London Medical Gazette!' of Feb. 1st, 1850. TRUSS FOR INGUINAL HERNIA. This Truss consists of an elastic girdle of steel, to which is adapted a compress of ivory, or of hard wood, of oblongo-oval form, acted upon by a spiral spring. Its chief advantages consist in the girdle being so formed as to maintain a firm and steady seat upon the pelvis, in the hard pad of oblongo-oval form giving a firm support to the internal ring and inguinal canal, the external ring being left free; and in the spiral spring directing the pressure perpendicularly upon the part requiring support, and allowing the varied movements of the body to be performed without displacement of the pad. Through the medium of the spiral spring, also, the degree of pressure exercised by the pad admits of being modified.